Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Interim VP of Engineering
- Company: Beamery
- Location: London, UK
- Date Posted: 2026-05-27
About Beamery
With the rapid expansion of AI and automation, the future of work has never been more challenging for organizations. Beamery’s unique jobs, skills, and tasks data platform helps organizations navigate these challenges and make more informed decisions across Talent Lifecycle Management. Our solutions power recruitment, mobility, upskilling, diversity, work architecture, and workforce planning for some of the world’s most forward-thinking companies.
We believe that where you work is much more than just a job. Millions of people are being left behind every day in their careers, and we’re on a mission to fix this by creating equal access to meaningful work, skills, and careers for all.
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to building a representative Beamery, creating an equitable, inclusive, and engaging environment for our people.
About the Opportunity
This will be an interim 6-month role, as either fixed-term employment contract or inside IR35, with the possibility of extension upon the completion of the initial engagement.
We are seeking a seasoned and execution-focused Interim VP of Engineering to lead our engineering organization through a critical period of growth and transition. Reporting to the CPTO, and working as an equal partner to Product and Data Science, you'll lead an experienced engineering organization spanning product engineering, platform, technical support, and IT - with a substantial team of managers, leads, principals, and engineers. Working in close partnership with the CPTO, you'll ensure engineering decisions and delivery are tied to commercial and delivery outcomes - revenue, cost, speed, and reliability.
Responsibilities
Accountability & Results
- Own day-to-day leadership of the full engineering organization - product engineering, platform, technical support, and IT
- Set, deliver, and report engineering OKRs and KPIs in partnership with the CPTO - deployment frequency, lead time to change, commitment vs. delivery ratio, cost to serve, and team health
Leadership & Development
- Coach and develop engineering managers and leads - building autonomous, self-sufficient delivery teams that don't need to escalate to thrive
- Own hiring and performance decisions at the team level
Strategy & Architecture
- Define and evolve the technical strategy for how Beamery builds and operates its platform - in close alignment with product and data science direction
- Embed AI-first ways of working across the engineering organization - accelerating delivery pace, reducing time to market, and building a culture where AI is a core part of how the team builds
- Manage tech debt pragmatically - triage and execution, in line with strategic priorities set by the CPTO
- Own the cloud infrastructure strategy and platform architecture - ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency at scale
Delivery & Operations
- Drive delivery throughput, predictability, and platform reliability across all teams - CI/CD, on-call, incident management, disaster recovery
- Ensure security and regulatory compliance across R&D and production platforms - including ISMS implementation and applicable industry standards
- Manage relationships with critical third-party platform and technology suppliers
Requirements
- 15+ years engineering; 7+ years leading orgs of 50+ at scale
- Done this before - stepped into a leadership void and built momentum fast
- Deep enterprise B2B SaaS - multi-tenant, cloud-native
- Commercially fluent - connects engineering decisions to business outcomes
- Strong people reader - knows who to back, develop, and move
- Builds teams that run themselves - autonomous execution is the goal, not dependency
- Genuine AI-native - uses AI to accelerate how the team builds, not just what it builds
- No ego about interim - outcome-focused, clean handover minded
We Offer
Beamery is for Everybody. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to us. We acknowledge the challenges in our industry and strive to develop an inclusive culture where everybody can contribute. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of ethnicity, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, national origin, age, disability status, or caregiver status. If, for whatever reason, you need us to make reasonable adjustments and adaptations to our recruitment process, please email [email protected]
Visit our Diversity, Equality and Inclusion page to learn more about progress and commitments.
About the Company
The glue that binds engineering, product, and design together is the success of our customers. We dig deep into customer research, tech discovery, and implementation, so that we can deliver the most value, every time. If it could be better, we change it.
Learn more about our Engineering, Product, and Design Team.